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Replete with dueling navies, commando landing parties and sinking vessels, the scenario that unfolded last week in the South China Sea recalled gunboat diplomacy of bygone years. The clash was between South Viet Nam and China over the 50 or so tiny, nearly uninhabited reefs, shoals and atolls that make up the Paracel archipelago, about 200 miles east of Viet Nam. For two days the fighting was intense, but the outcome was never in doubt. Chinese troops claimed the islands last week in the name of Chairman...
...Island for decades. The South Vietnamese government ordered two of its 2,800-ton coastal cutters and four smaller ships to the Paracels to shadow a Chinese flotilla of seven ships including Komar-class gunboats equipped with Russian-made Styx surface-to-surface missiles. The Vietnamese then landed a commando team on Duncan Island and cut down the Chinese flag. According to Peking, shells from Vietnamese ships killed and injured a number of Chinese fishermen who were on the island. Saigon, however, maintains that the Chinese fired first, killing several Vietnamese commandos...
...guest arrived on time at the white Dutch-colonial guesthouse in the spacious compound of the President's official residence. At that point hardly anyone could foresee that for the duration of his stay, Tanaka would be a virtual prisoner within this compound, guarded by hundreds of tough commando troops and armored cars...
Chiang wrote that small groups of airdropped guerillas and commando raids could "surely touch off an anti-tyranny revolutionary movement on the mainland." He said that at the proper time "military actions could be launched from Taiwan supporting the anti-Communist movement...
...meantime, last week the commando groups were engaged in a mission that gave them at least a momentary sense of unity: they sent four representatives, hand-picked by Arafat, to Kuwait to interrogate the terrorists who had been responsible for the Rome massacre. The Kuwaitis, anxious to avoid the blame for bringing the terrorists to trial, have said that they will turn them over to the Palestinian commando movement as a whole for "justice...